30,459 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.0% since 2020)
644 square miles of land · 47 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
17 active community water systems list Montgomery County in the area they serve, reporting 30,553 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| COFFEYVILLE, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2012513 | 8,847 served |
| INDEPENDENCE, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2012508 | 8,464 served |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 1C buys surface water · local government · KS2012509 | 2,450 served |
| CHERRYVALE, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2012512 | 2,159 served |
| CANEY, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2012517 | 1,756 served |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 2C A buys surface water · local government · KS2012526 | 1,113 served |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 6 buys surface water · local government · KS2012506 | 1,092 served |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 2 buys surface water · local government · KS2012504 | 800 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 132 people were held in Montgomery County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 691 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 108.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
4 school districts have their office in Montgomery County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $28.1 million — $26.1 million to run schools, about $12,690 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $24.1 million state, $6.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $38.4 million.
Spent $28 million — $25.6 million to run schools, about $14,526 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $18.4 million state, $4.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 million.
Spent $12.4 million — $11 million to run schools, about $14,003 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $8.5 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.5 million.
Spent $12.2 million — $11.6 million to run schools, about $16,785 per student, plus $629,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $9.3 million state, $2.4 million federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Montgomery County about $27.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
326 bridges in Montgomery County: 105 in good condition, 203 fair, and 18 poor (5.5%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| 2000 RD Mile 15 over TRIB. TO ONION CREEK · built 1940 | 1,442 vehicles a day |
| 1800 RD Mile 21 over VERDIGRIS RIVER · built 1926 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| 3425 RD Mile 21 over BIG HILL CREEK · built 1956 | 516 vehicles a day |
| 1800 RD Mile 23 over PUMPKIN CREEK · built 1919 | 500 vehicles a day |
| 1800 RD Mile 23 over PUMPKIN CREEK · built 1919 | 500 vehicles a day |
| 4400 RD Mile 16 over VERDIGRIS RIVER · built 1926 | 250 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.2 million of work in Montgomery County in fiscal 2025, about $69 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Kansas are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Montgomery County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Montgomery County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Labette County (24 mi) · Wilson County (25 mi) · Chautauqua County (28 mi) · Nowata County, OK (28 mi) · Elk County (33 mi) · Washington County, OK (35 mi).